So I went and looked it up, and signal-desktop is listed as a reproducible build, so theoretically you should be able to go and check that it conforms to the source

https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

But this isn’t anything I’ve looked into myself, so feel free to look into it

And you also need to trust your OS not taking screenshots of your apps or recording the text displayed onto your screen

There’s plenty of links in this chain, there’s a lot you need to be aware of if you’re going to those lengths. Pick your battles

It’s also in the official arch repositories, so any arch-derived distro has an easy install. I don’t know about other distros however

Signal has a Linux client though? I literally use it myself

Two editions, the current one and previous one, I believe

And the space hog is like a few gigabytes. I think that’s well worth it for a beginner when it means that in the worst case you can always roll back when we have like terabytes of space

And autohide!

Time capsule for future society that can crack our encryption

“we can’t ensure the data is safe because there’s too much of it”

…sounds like an especially big reason to figure something out, huh? Not to mention, 858 TB isn’t even that much for a whole ass government. For a consumer it might be 10$ per TB for a new drive, so it would be less when you’re a government, which makes it just a bit under 10 000 USD for a full backup. That’s it. Even if you budget in having to replace all drives once a year, 10 000 USD/yr is a bargain

Well, a properly managed cloud storage service very much should be multiple locations with redundant copies of data lol yes. So you’re not wrong in that.

That’s really funny. It’s such a specific situation too. Almost like a comedy sketch

What else would it be? What do people think the cloud is?

This is a programmer community. I would expect people to use technical terms over common parlance

Unless you play modded 1.7.10, which has a mod (LWJGL3ify) that has had some sort of ungodly work done to allow it to run with modern java versions.

GregTech: New Horizons is a modpack that famously uses it (and I can confirm the modpack runs better than it has any right to do)

I’m not on my PC so can’t check, but I recall the Godot engine binary being less than 1GB

That’s pretty wild for a modern engine

You’re definitively forgetting about other important insects for agriculture such as worms

That’s the thing, it’s not an established console line

And also, half of Wii U sales is fucking massive. Yes the Wii U was considered a failure, but it was still well known

That’s a big assumption about who I am, what I do, and my abilities, isn’t it?

You don’t know everything, and your experiences aren’t universal, you know

There have definitively been multiple times windows systems bricked themselves on me without it being my fault

It’s not rarer than Linux systems bricking in my experience. In addition, Linux systems tend to be a lot more fixable, but with windows being just a black box sometimes you’re just shit out of luck and have to reinstall

Wayland is the new protocol and will be the one that everything uses in the long run

If Wayland works for you, then that’s great, don’t use X11

The main reason you’d want to use X11 these days is for compatibility. But that’s getting less and less of a concern as time goes on

I mean, no, the tester didn’t say anything wrong here, and all of those (and more) are conditions one must take into account if one were to write a piece of software without errors